"I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow."

-- Jean Cocteau

#Order Quotes #Giving Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of obstacles to overcome - it didn't just run itself for the love of the game because soccer is not the No. 1 sport as it is in Europe.”
“That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.”
“In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.”

Source : "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.
“You are what you are, until you decide to be different.”
“It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!”
“New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc.”
“The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware a priest every which way.”

Source : Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.109, Simon and Schuster
“You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.”

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